Anna Shireman operates a drill at Keller Furniture Company

Description:	Anna Shireman operates a drill at the Keller Furniture and Manufacturing Company in Corydon, Indiana, in 1943. Shireman was one of twenty women who began to work in the factory during World War II. Due to a shortage of available men, the company employed women in a few positions, and once they proved satisfactory, more women were employed. Their work included operations on stock for furniture, for walk-in refrigerators, and for truck bodies. The factory shift was from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the business acknowledged that in a weeks time, the work turned out by the twenty women compared favorably with the work done by twenty men on similar machines. Shiremans work required that she hold the furniture stock accurately in place while operating the drill.
Origin:	1943-03
Created By:	Wallace, Albert (1909-2002)
Source:	http://cdm17251.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17251coll23/id/45
Collection:	People at Work
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Subjects:	furniture workers furniture industry and trade women drills, electric factories manufacturing

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